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29 Feb 2024, 12:47
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Hi everyone,
I am currently in the process of preparing for my GMAT. I have been studying for roughly 8 weeks.
My main area of struggle is the quant side. I am able to answer the majority (95%+) of official guide questions correct, however when I take the official mocks or level 700+ questions from the forum quiz, this percentage drops to low 70s.
I was wondering if others have had a similar experience and then found the real test to be similar to the official guides? Or are the “hard official guide questions” in fact quite easy in comparison to what you get.
Thanks
Matias
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I am currently in the process of preparing for my GMAT. I have been studying for roughly 8 weeks.
My main area of struggle is the quant side. I am able to answer the majority (95%+) of official guide questions correct, however when I take the official mocks or level 700+ questions from the forum quiz, this percentage drops to low 70s.
I was wondering if others have had a similar experience and then found the real test to be similar to the official guides? Or are the “hard official guide questions” in fact quite easy in comparison to what you get.
Thanks
Matias
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29 Feb 2024, 14:15
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If you think about it, even if Official Guide questions were evenly distributed over the difficulty curve, half of them would be relatively easy, and others would still not be particularlly hard. So, most OG Quant questions aren't very hard.
Meanwhile, I'm pretty sure only a few OG Quant questions are close to the hardest questions on the actual GMAT in difficulty. So, the difficulty of OG questions is not really represenatative of the difficulty of the questions you'll see when taking the test if you're scoring relatively high.
When you take the GMAT, the questions will be similiar in difficulty to the questions you see on the official practice tests. So, your prep should be aimed and your developing skill in getting such questions correct. Accordingly, you should work on increasing you accuracy for 700-level questions.
Meanwhile, I'm pretty sure only a few OG Quant questions are close to the hardest questions on the actual GMAT in difficulty. So, the difficulty of OG questions is not really represenatative of the difficulty of the questions you'll see when taking the test if you're scoring relatively high.
When you take the GMAT, the questions will be similiar in difficulty to the questions you see on the official practice tests. So, your prep should be aimed and your developing skill in getting such questions correct. Accordingly, you should work on increasing you accuracy for 700-level questions.
29 Feb 2024, 15:30
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Including doing timed practice sets could be helpful. If you have the Official-Guide, you could use the online question bank to easily create them by the way. When reviewing, trying to find shorter ways to solve the questions you've attempted (even for questions you got correct) could be useful as well. Sometimes the answer choices themselves can be leveraged.
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